In the continuing confounding genius of the Royal Trux legacy, Neil Michael Hagerty assembled the cast of the 1988 Royal Trux lineup - literally a cast, other people he's met recently that resembled the 1988 lineup, to perform their notoriously difficult and drugged out album... Twin Infinitives.... the show was actually the antithesis of a reunion on purpose - not only were the other members not there, but the twin infinitives material was hardly even played live 20 years ago... (and they did a pretty damn good job...)

neil even announced the title of each song before they played it, and counted off the end of each one - "ONE TWO THREE FOUR" - in as close recreations of what these mini-disaster songs could sound like live. No surprises, but that's the point. and also very uncharacteristic for a guy who's known to frequently play only brand new material live and has continously said in interviews that he'll never reunite the original trux lineup. -[Gary Canino]

Neil Michael Hagerty performed Royal Trux's Twin Infinitivesat Saint Vitus on Saturday (12/8), a rare, one-off showcasing of the 1992 LP. Pictures from the show are below (though none of supporting band Pigeons).

No, it wasn't "Neil Hagerty peformed...Twin Infinitives." It was Neil Hagerty and a group of excellent musicians in their own right. There are pictures of them, but no credits. Now that the blogs are the music press, we get even less in the way of reportage!

Can we have one article on Hagerty without the Jennifer H. mention? I mean those two have (presumably) separate lives, and have been apart for how long?

can YOU find their names online? oh that's because they ARENT anywhere! these are random, low-key people that hagerty found, and he doesn't name them in any interviews i've read.

"Can we have one article on Hagerty without the Jennifer H. mention?"

they were performing a ROYAL TRUX album, a band that PROMINENTLY (1/2 of the band)featured jennifer H. how can her absence NOT be mentioned? no one is even gossiping here, neil and jennifer are clearly on good terms with one another so take your stupid negativity OUTTA here punk!